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From one side to the coast, the United States is covered with a rich tapestry of abandoned buildings - majestic houses left to crumble, churches ravaged by elements, whole cities lost time. And if many of these structures finally end up at the mercy of a bulldozer, others are left as little as envelopes, the Erie reminders of what was once.

If you are looking forward to a truly angry adventure, we have gathered the most frightened abandoned building of each state, mental establishments in decomposition to the spoiled excursions that have not seen students for a century. And if you hope a meeting with the paranormal on your travels, set your sites on the15 most haunted places in America.

Once an antebellum city is flourishing - and the old capital of Alabama from 1820 to 1826-Cahaba served as a primary distribution point for the cotton trade, then as the location of a prison for union soldiers during the civil war. However, after a major flood in 1865, a large number of occupants in the city fled, leaving many former Cahaba landmarks unoccupied.

Today, several buildings are always held as reminders of this ancient glory of the small town. One of these structures is the episcopal of Episcopal of St. Luke, erected in 1854. This small house of worship was such a pillar in the community that, when Cahaba was actually abandoned, the church was deconstructed and Removed into a nearby town, where it stayed until 2006. That year, it was again dismantled and brought back to Cahaba. Visit the city today and, in addition to Saint-Luke, you will find many abandoned homes, cemeteries andmaybe even a ghost or two. And for more Americana, consult these25 actual places of life in America that many think are cursed.

This abandoned mining camp, located in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and preserve in Kennecott (mines are the entire "city" Kennecott), produced millions of copper dollars back when it was operational from 1911 to 1938.

Kennecott's mines have been reported a national historic reference in 1986 and the National Parks Department has begun to restore abandoned buildings to make them safe for visitors. However, it will not do much to change the scary history of Kennecott - from 1939 to 1952, the city was entirely deserted, with the exception of a family of three who served as guards. If it makes your ears, check more from the23 Totally true urban legends.

The vulture mine of Arizona, which started working in 1863, produced about 260,000 ounces of silver and established itself as the most productive gold mine in the history of the state. However, after being tried "non-essential" by the war production office during the Second World War, the MARICOPA County Mine was surgered in 1942. Residents were fled Vulture City, leaving a ghost of a city and a city. mine behind them.

The abandoned site has gained notoriety when it was presented on the travel channelGhost adventures In 2010 - and although it belongs privately, there are regularlysightseeing of the foreign succession. And for more information on the architectural history of your original state, checkThe most popular house style in each state.

The Dogpatch USA Usa Park, located in the Current Marble Marble Township, opened in 1968. Based on the cartoon of Lil 'Abner Cartoon created by the designer of Al Capp, the "Folk Hill" - Attraction could only maintain financial sustainability for so long, pushing the closure of the park in 1993.

The park remained abandoned for two decades until a local businessman buys the property in 2014, although most abandoned attractions, including the wild water rugged slide, remains up to date. This is currently a popular site for urban explorers, although the owner lives on the property and isnot an intruder fan, according toAtlas obscura.

Perhaps the most famous prison in American history, Alcatraz, the former federal penitentiary, is no stranger to a projector on the big screen. The prison jumped intoX-Men: Last Stand,The book of Eli,Catch Me If You CanAnd no surprise, here-Escape from Alcatraz.

In real life, Alcatraz - who served as a military prison in the mid-1900s - surgified in 1963. It was a question of keeping prisoners locked on an island was too expensive. Such events inspired Sci-Fi Mind-Bender Maestro J.J. Abrams to develop an eponymous television show, on the Alcatraz detainees who have mysteriously disappeared on the closure of the prison - and reappeared in the 21st century. It was canceled after only 13 episodes.

Saint Elmo, Colorado, was created in 1880 as a mining city of gold and silver, and at some point, it housed a population of 2,000 inhabitants. But when the mining industry began to decline in the 1920s, the city saw its inhabitants leave for greener pastures. At the moment when the railway has ceased Saint Elmo in 1922, the city was actually abandoned. Then, with the death of the postmaster of the city in 1952, even the courier service was cut off.

And while Saint Elmo is one of the ghostly preserved ghost cities from Colorado, there is so much to explore. If you choose to visit, you will need to stay in the nearby town of Salida, since Saint Elmo is a little more than a collection of abandoned salons and general shops today. And for more horrible stories, see these27 urban internet-era legends of the era of the spine.

If you drive or take the train via Bridgeport-Hey, it's on the New York road in Boston - you can not miss it: the dilapidated remington weapon plant. In 1988, Remington, one of the largest weapons manufacturers in America, just rising and left their massive complex. This has been totally abandoned since.

The whole compound wasEdited for demolition In 2012. But that never happened. Then, in 2015, provides demolition (and redevelopment)have been realized again. It has never happened, nor a conduct throughout the city today, where you will see the factory standing as worrying as ever, suggests that it will never do it.

Abandoned headlights are always scary. But in the case of the rear light of Reedy Island Beach, first lit in 1904, it is not the lighthouse itself that throws a glow. This honor goes to the guardian district of the lighthouse, which at some point a house of eight rooms, a petroleum house and a barn.

When the light of the range has become automated in the 1950s, the use of the Lighthouse holder has become obsolete and the neighborhoods have been sold and possibly abandoned. In 2002, a fire destroyed the house and the oil house, leaving only the Rickty wood barn and the lighthouse standing today.

These small dome houses off the coast of Marco Island, in Cape Romano, were built in 1981 as a vacation retirement by the eccentric businessman Bob Lee and his wife, Margaret. When they were built for the first time, the raised domes were on a farm beach, but the rise of the water meant that the earth domes were soon surrounded by the sea.

And even if the houses have been abandoned since 2007 and have been damaged by hurricane Irma in 2017, these small strange bubbles are still largely intact. If you are ready to put you in a boat and to pagine them, you do not prevent you from paying them a visit.

When he opened in 1842, the central state psychiatric hospital in Milddville offered all kinds of horrible treatments, lobotomies to electromagnolic therapy. The controversial procedures administered there ceased, but the campus of 2,000 acres, which includes about 200 individual buildings, remains today. And although some parts of the site are still operational - the main hospital building is home to about 200 patients - the majority of the campus is abandoned.

And as if these terrains are not strange enough, there is also a nightmare cemetery just a few steps away. If you visit the central state, you will find about 2,000 cast iron markers in the cedar cemetery of the site. According toAtlanta magazine, markers "commemorate 25,000 patients buried on hospital's lands", marked each of a number instead of a name. This is because the original cemetery - and its appropriate grave markers - have been dismantled by the detainees who have already maintained the reasons.

While Mainland Hawaii is composed of eight large islands, there are 137 "Îles" official in the Hawaiian chain, including Molokai. On this piece of paradise, you will find the abandoned Kaluakoi resort, which opened its doors in the 1970s and closed in 2001. Where there were luxurious neighborhoods and a beautiful private balconies, you will now find padlock rooms, Ricktyle balustrades, and broken windows.

Founded in 1893 in Albion, the Normal School of Albion State distributed around 6,460 degrees over the 58 years, it was open from 1893 to 1951. Unfortunately, the school, which focused on training teachers. been affected by low registration and lack of funding. And once it has been left vacant, it has been prey even more. In 2017, a camera team ofGhost adventures Visited school and determined that he had "the dark energy of satanic graffiti". Today, the property is embedded and plays a series of a series of Ghost visits.

Located about seven miles north of Savanna, Illinois, the Savanna Army of 13,062 acres, opened in 1917 and served as ease of proof and test for weapons developed in nearby rock arsenal nearby. Since 2000, this deposit has been empty, except for the 9,404 acres of its lands dedicated to the fauna and refuge of Fish of the Haute-Mississippi River. Today, the deposit houses little more than abandoned buildings and empty roads, with few remaining signs of the flourishing military center it was once.

When it was built in 1927, the Methodist Church of Gary City, Indiana, cost an impressive one million dollars to build. At one point, it was even the biggest Methodist church of the Midwest. But as the city of Gary refused across the 1960s and 70s, the adhesion of the Church declined dramatically from 3,000 members in the 1950s to only 320 in 1973.

Finally, the church stopped and the building was abandoned in 1975. Recently, it is served as a place of filtration for productions likeTransformers and theNetflix series Sense 8. The city leaders have even floated the idea of ​​transforming the building into a "Garden Park Ruins" that could host weddings, meetings and art shows, according to theChicago Tribune.

Since 1950,More than 4,300 school districts In Iowa have been consolidated or eliminated. In the late 1980s, Bagley was a neighborhood of this type and the school was sold to a private buyer. According toreportThe building has actually remained fairly good - until the roof started collapsing, in 2011. Since then, not a downtime has been allocated for repairs.

As one of the first restaurants in the country, WinStead opened its first Kansas City restaurant in 1940. Between Kansas and Missouri, seven locations remain open. (There was once more than a dozen Metro region of Kansas City!) This vacant Wintstead, located in Merriam, was one of the unlucky.

The Sanatorium of Hills Waverly Hills in Louisville was first opened in 1910 to accommodate about 50 tuberculous patients. But after the cure for the disease of the disease has been discovered and the request of sanatorium has fallen, the hospital has been lived in 1961. Although the building has been emptying for decades, there was a popular local institution and frequently hosts Ghost visits and ghost outings. In fact, according toGhost hunters, the Hills Waverly Hills sanatorium has some of the most widespread paranormal activity in the eastern United States.

Fans ofAmerican horror story Knowing the story of Madame Delphine Lalaurie, a new social orleans accused of torturing and killing slaves at his home on the Royal Rue of the French Quarter of the city. When a fire broke out at home in 1834, many slaves of lalaury were trapped. And when the city creep has heard about the crimes of the woman against them, they stormed the mansion in retaliation, forcing lalaury to withdraw in France.

Immediately, the house was abandoned. And although this has had several owners over the years, it is currently vacant. The mansion is said that the rumor was one of the most haunted residences in the French Quarter and is a stopover on several ghost visits. But before leaving, beware of: a lot of tourists report feeling weak or nauseating as they pass.

Nicknamed "Alcatraz de l'Est", the Portsmouth Naval Prison of Kittery, Maine, is a former American Marine Prison and the Maritime Corps that has been abandoned since its closure in 1974. Opened in 1908, the concrete fortress really has really Summer modeled after California Alcatraz - and, similar to the location of rock in San Francisco Bay, is located even on the Quick Fluid Piscattaqua River to deter the evades. And although there have been several attempts to escape the prison during his functioning, only one succession - a prisoner who sounded through his bars from his cell and crossed the river by sailing.

Behind a Safeway shopping center in Ellicott City, you will find the enchanted amusement park abandoned. Opened in 1955, the Disneyland inspired park attracted nearly 400,000 visitors every summer during its peak in the 70s and the 80s. However, after dealing with strong competition from Russian mountain theme parks nearby. Baltimore nearby, the enchanted forest closed in 1989. The east side of the park was bulldozed and converted into a shopping center, but the rest of the park remains intact and abandoned - which means that you can always visit this castle of desinetil today .

Built in 1856, Northampton's Northampton Hospital, Massachusetts, was built to "heal foolish in the moralistic tradition," according to his history website. In terms of Layman, this meant to provide a beautiful location for illnesses to be delighted, while health professionals worked to balance the four moods of the patient's body - a coal practice that has been dilapidated for a long time.

In addition to its "horrible treatments", the hospital has also been seriously overloaded. Although this is only supposed to accommodate 250 patients, he housed nearly three times more than many in 1907 and the building was closed for good three patients elsewhere transferred - in 1993.

It is difficult to believe that this dominant 13-storey structure in the Detroit Loktown district is completely abandoned, but it's true. Opened in 1914, Michigan Central Station was a passenger railway deposit and one of the largest gateways in the Midwest. However, as the use of passenger trains has begun to decline in the 1950s, the grandiose station has been used less and less, and possibly closed in 1988. In May 2018, Ford Motor Company bought the building, likely to 'Be used as a centerpiece of the corktown's new CORKTOWN campus - but until then, it remains strangely abandoned.

A number of abandoned flour mills are always sitting on the shores of the Mississippi River in the Minneapolis flour district. Once upon a time, from the last part of the nineteenth century, this region was considered the capital of the United States flour - and the site of "the disaster of the large factory" of 1878, in which an explosion to Washbasin a mill killed 14 men. While some of the factories were transformed into museums after the decline of the region since the First World War, there are many others who are abandoned today.

The city of Rodney, first settled in 1763, was formerly so important for the state of Mississippi that it almost became its capital. Two centuries later, after the Mississippi river has changed courses (and moved away from the city), Rodney is now largely deserted, with only a handful of individuals who still resided there. Among the remaining buildings of Rodney, the first presbyterian church of Rodney is built in 1831, built in 1831 and still bearing the damage of a barrel ball that was launched on his side during the civil war.

On the site of an old cement factory in St. Louis resides "CimentLand" an incomplete public art facility per sculptorBob Cassilly. And while the cement was once on the right way to become a major on the edge of the city's art scene, his construction stopped abruptly when Cassilly was found dead on the site, apparently after a bulldozer accident. However, five years after his premature disappearance, he was discovered that the accident had been staged to conceal the true cause of Cassilly's death: be beaten to death by an unknown assailant. Today, the site is officially closed to the public but remains full of abandoned machines and sculptures.

Originally settled in the 1860s, the mining city of Garnet was abandoned in the early 20th century after his gold failed to go out - and those who do not leave, found a serious incentive to do so little time after. In 1912, a fire burned half of the city and the place has never been rebuilt. Despite the massive fire, however, garnet is still considered one of Montana's most preserved ghost towns and many of its abandoned buildings remain intact today, offering many abandoned animal sites to explore.

In 1870, Roscoe, Nebraska, officially won his designation as a city, thanks to the recently built local railway station. However, as fallen rail travelers, many residents of the city moved, leaving innumerable abandoned buildings, but precious few inhabitants, behind. Among the buildings still being held today are Chamberlin, a local store, as well as the gas station and the roadside hosting once maintained by the eponymous owners of the shop.

Once a blooming stop on the Las Vegas and TonoPah railway, the Rhyolite Spanish style station cost $ 130,000 to construction - or about $ 3.6 million today. Trains started driving in the train station in 1906, but only eight years later, after gold rush, they stopped arriving for good. In 1920, the population of the city was almost zero. The railroad depot has become a casino and a bar in the 30s, then a small museum and a souvenir shop in the 70s. Today, it's completely abandoned.

Fort Stark, located in the south-east corner of New Castle Island in New Hampshire, was built for the first time after the American Spanish war from 1898 to protect Portsmouth Harbor. Today, the fort is considered obsolete and is open to the public during the day. And although you are welcome to visit Fort Stark, currently run by the new Hampshire State Parks Service, it may be a treacherous trip, rugged land and autumn throughout the site.

Formerly a popular shopping destination, Wayne Hills Shopping Center in Wayne, New Jersey, has certainly seen better days. Built in the mid-1970s, portions of the mall were ravaged by fire, while others were obtained from the popularity of the popularity of brick shops and e-commerce mortar. The main part of this 103,800 square feet shopping center has been closed since the end of the 2000s and much of its interior has been destroyed since vandalism and elements. However, the site can soon obtain a new life again, the developers proposing the demolition of the existing structure and the creation of a supermarket of 90 248 square feet and five new stores where the shopping center was once.

Centers have opened in 1953, the Ranch House Cafe, located in Tucumcari, New Mexico, along the road 66, seems to be the only standing test of the city that anchored it. And although the city has not been completely abandoned - it was always at home to more than 5,000 inhabitants from 2010 - there is little chance that you will get a meal again in this roadside coffee abandoned.

In the 1920s, this massive 12-storey structure was built on the Gowanus seafront in Brooklyn, explicitly to store grains from the Midwest. However, it was seriously underutilized and stopped in the mid-60s. This has been abandoned since. Does not anyone think about the converted loft space!

Manual Training and Stonewall Jackson's Industrial School, located outside Concord, North Carolina, open its doors to young male offenders in 1909 as an alternative to traditional hard work given to recognized children. guilty of criminal activities. Today, there are modern youth detention buildings on the same campus, its first twentieth century buildings are no longer used, their ionic columns adorned with graffiti, their broken windows and their interiors decompose quickly.

Operational between 1912 and 1987, this abandoned tuberculosis hospital and sanatorium would be one of the most haunted places in the country. Since its closure, the building has even been a hub for rituals and satanic practices, depending on the travel channelGhost adventures.

"By exploring San Haven, we immediately felt a heavy pressure because of the atmosphere of a place that housed so much suffering, amplified by the extended period of abandonment," writes Troy Larson photographer on the websiteGhosts of North Dakota. Long short story: Enter your risks and perils.

Also known as Mansfield Reformatory, this historic prison was open from 1896 to 1990, when it was closed following an action of action of the class of prisoners claiming the conditions of overcrowding and inhuman . In the years, since most of the prison has been restored and is open to visits to the general public. (Fun facts: theShawshank Redemption was filmed in this procreate.)

If you are looking for a place to stay through Afton, Oklahoma, the Motel of the Avon Court will probably not be top of your list. While the city is always at home to a population of just over 1,000 half-thank you for the abandonment of mining towns on each side due to the contamination of water and soil - its motel on the edge of Road has long been abandoned. Today, all that remains old host areas is a rusty sign and worse-to-wear accommodation with embedded windows and missing doors.

Located just off the ribs of Tillamook, Oregon, the Tillamook Rock lighthouse kept ships on a track of 1881 until it was initially abandoned in 1957, due to the constant difficult conditions of the island. But it's not the closest thing about this stormy site: in 1980, the lighthouse was sold to a group of real estate agents who created the eternity of the Columbarium sea and used the marker until At about 30 urns of human remains until its license is revoked in 1999.. The lighthouse has been a private and abandoned owner since.

Due to a declining zinc market (and the damage it inevitably made to the surrounding environment), the new Zinc Jersey Station in Pennsylvania closed in the 1980s. Today. , it is poorly seen to visit the abandoned plant (and most of it has been demolished, anyway) because of the number of hazardous chemicals it houses and living son that still surround the site, this Last would be responsible for the death of an intruder in recent years.

Some children want their college to close its doors and never reopen again. Some lucky residents of Woonsocket, Rhode Island got their wish. The original Woonsocket College, built in 1914, closed for good in 2009, when a new school was erected nearby. Over the decade since then, the school has been largely preserved - while its rooms are strangely empty, art projects are always suspended on its walls, the colomdriers still wear the light pasta of chalk scribbles and Paper streams its floors.

In Columbia, in South Carolina, the Babcock Asylum Shell for the mentally ill is still standing where the building was originally erected more than 100 years ago. First built in the middle of the nineteenth century, the building added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 - is now a monument to peel paint and broken windows, its graffitimated rooms wearing few traces of those who are kept for their own safety and the safety of others - once...

In recent years, the ghost town of Capa, South Dakota, has received some advertising to have a population of a Philip O'Connor, who still lives in the same house as his parents and grandparents were once inhabited. Apart from O'Connor, however, this city of the plains is vacant, although several buildings remain standing - includingThe semi-famous Capa hotel, who housed several hot mineral baths at the time of operation.

While outside the Tennessee State Prison always looks like a castle (you will have to take our word on it), the interior (above) is something straight out of your worst nightmare. The deceased prison, which opened in 1898 and was surrounded in 1992, contains 800 six feet of eight non-ventilated and non-ventilated eight-feet cells. In its beginnings, each prisoner has been forced to offset part of the cost of their incarceration by carrying out a certain 16 hours of physical work a day. Although it is always structurally structurally, visitors can not enter due to asbestos and other health problems.

Registered in the National Register of Historic Sites, the Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells, in Texas, has been abandoned since 1972, with vandalism and basic rot threatening its already precarious stability. Although many groups have made offers to buy property from closed, get adequate funding for the rehabilitation of this property once luxurious is proven difficult. However, interest in property continues to be fueled by ghost hunters, with shows likeGhost adventures andGHOST STORIES Celebrity Filming in its walls until today.

Home of Truth, located in a remote part of Utah, was once home to a religious utopian intentional community in the 1930s, led by Mary spiritualist Ogden. Most of the group dissolved in 1937 when Ogden said she was trying to raise a woman from the dead. A few stragglers remained on the remote ranch, but in 1977, all residents have moved out, leaving behind little more than a set of abandoned buildings overhung dusty desert. They are still visible from the Needles area near Canyonlands National Park today.

While Green Mountain State is known for its picturesque guest rooms, there is also some less than welcoming abandoned properties, such as Hyde. Located in the small town of Sudbury, this hotel also known as Hyde Manor was built in 1865 after the main building on the same property was destroyed in a fire. Today, the old hotel was abandoned, although its windows broken, roof crumbling and decaying of siding still intriguing to view goosebumps for drivers that pass close along the road 30.

The Renaissance faires most cities take place at the exhibition center, but not county Fredericksburg. Virginia Renaissance Faire, which operated from 1996 to 1999, was built deep in the desert near Fredericksburg to mimic the appearance of a medieval village.

Unfortunately, the show did not attract large crowds, perhaps because it was built on a swamp in the middle of nowhere and close after only two seasons. The structures remain however. And while it is an impressive sight, there is a better view of the private life of your own internet property is under surveillance by the Sheriff's Department Stafford County and do not allow visitors.

The head of one hour and a half from Spokane, west on US-2, and you will find Govan, as a "ghost town" as any city can be. A fire in the early 20th century devastated the city. Then the school (photo) closed in 1942. And finally, the US Bureau Station closed in 1967, the settlement officially the fate of Govan. Few buildings remain, but the school is still standing, if you are looking for places to film a dark, artsy B-movie.

After operating for 40 years, the Park Lake Shawnee Amusement stopped all operations after the death of two young owners in 1966. In fact, the park has a particularly bloody history: six children died on rides on the park race four decade of the park. Today, the whole park is naturally petrifying. But there is something particularly frightening about a ticket booth lonesome abandoned.If you want to visit the park these days, you do not find services, but you will finddedicated visitsthat work during the Halloween season.

Nothing like a murder to an abandoned building even creepier. While the Northridge Mall in Milwaukee, which opened its doors to guests in 1972, was once a bustling commercial center, the murder of a woman outside a restaurant in the shopping center in 1992 perhaps embittered some of its customers once greedy. With the growing popularity of online shopping, retailers have left the ship and the shopping center has been abandoned since 2009.

Located atop a hill in Cody, Wyoming, the Smith Mansion is one of the most fascinating sites abandoned by the state. Francis Lee Smith engineer built the impressive wooden house in hand, the construction of the unique building ultimately contributing to the dissolution of his marriage and his eventual death. In 1992, while working on one of the balconies of the house, Smith fell to his death, and the house remains unoccupied today. And for more stories about this country of ours, seeThe craziest Done on each US state.

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